







.<* pass, but after leaving Ukr 



e*y. The 

 ailruad and Tran*portat ton .,ii.j^n 



lention it ultimately to make the line a rail 

 line ha* a telephone between Dyea 



. Mitidla , anl !u- ha* to 



tailed account of thr 

 ripa* 

 ontared. ami rapids whom descent is vary 



rk tic 



Ihe hardfthii* of the journey are over* 



. Mr wart mrr. aUnit 66 

 hr Yukon i- half a mile to a milr wi.: 



nth -mall i-land*. White Pass, on the 

 to very dangerous. In many places 

 i-a.-k animal- havsj hail to 

 ie%ed of thnr litinlens and and 



- a nredttice, or to so n. 

 that Ian;. h rough. Home 



<* and mules have lost 

 ti tias*. Men have worked here as pack- 

 r *; to i in ,. , i. k > . .it,. I , -arnrd 100-pound loads. 



war with l.akr ih-nnrtt. The asosnt to not steep, 

 ne road. * 

 k bed most of the war, the rest to be < 



1808. a* tram war fa to be ready 

 i >ka^wa\ ana I*ke IW-i 

 i^way has spru '10 rush to the 



MILS not), .an a 







some of them several stories high. 150 log cabins 

 and many tent.-, (i hotel*, l.'i lodging houses, a 

 . a sawmill, a hall, a post office, 15 res- 

 taurants. 13 general stores, 4 tobacco stores, 4 news 

 stands, 94 saloons, 8 drug stores, hs. 5 



meat markets, laundries, 6 blacksmiths, 4 bath- 

 houstr. 6 barber shops, 1 bank, 11 bar, grain, and 

 feed companies, 6 real-estate offices, 1 bowling al- 

 ley. 10 groceries, 8 furniture stores, 8 emplo> 

 tmreaus, 6 lumber yards, 8 jewelers, and 6 bakeries ; 

 also carpenters, shoemakers, N lawyers, 



physicians, ials. 



.adr for a railroad from I'yra- 

 larbor orer Del ton trail to Cannack's post on 



l Stickeen river fa another way that mar prove 

 a good route: hut it i- ..nl> navigable for canoes, 

 and ih.-r uh have taken this nute hare met with 



v that of baring 

 boats overt urn. d in the -ift 



One man has been dr.. n.-d. Thr Canadian Pacific 

 c..m|.;in\ projeoti buiidinf .1 ral n . i i* kwi . :. i , .. 

 graph creek and I M, ds to oper- 



nne-ti..n" of steamer* nr 



between Victoria an ' I Ma ware 



my proposes to fon-trurt a railn*d from the 

 mouth of the Taku t<> l.ak- Tro'.in 



;jtion of theTaku, and a h^ht-.lraucht 



run on I-'ikr T.-iiti ami thr H<H.talinquariver, 

 which i> ft. . from dangerous rapids. 



her reindeer m-r .ows.it fa said, can travel 

 on i.v tr.uN. lut hofSSI a:; i dogl M I 1 - -' ' >' 



1888, 105 dogs^Nrw fi>und lands. 8t* Bernards* oof* 

 *hi|i|n-d from >-atr 



illerted ami trmiiml 

 to draw sleds by Jo] .an animal t r.. 



The Canadian Government fa establishing custom- 

 houses on all r hr Klondike and making 



the tra.:- mda. M- 



tlu things that the miners mu*l have are taxed. 



.' ' : 



1 poliee. iwder Major J M. Watoa. kav sst 

 the gold rsgioo.andby the aprtag o( 18M 



... 



t., ,rri^l 



. only letter* 



' 



. 



Jusph Ladue. one of the Klondike 

 a house at the confluence of Ihe Yi 



rivers and named the place after i , 



aWMHi. I a jrar Ut. 



AjOOO population. It orruptM about 



i.utntaffd, all Ihe streeU running in one 

 i. an. t the a venues across, There are stores 



of .11 k.t 



!U|.ti.t. at 



tal. In Norember. 18v7, the opera house and two 



In this desolate northern region the winter lasts 

 nine months, when the sun shines only a few hours 

 every day. thr thermometer goal as low as 60 be- 

 lw xero. and the Yukon to dosed by ire from 



waathareaadataieasasav^thetaioVtofahafd 



that. u-k burns. In the si. 



days are very long and it fa warm enough to 



mfortable. The rainy aeon occur, in 

 fe,l and housed 



..nd the hartly vegetables can he raised. 

 Game fa very scarce, but berries of many kinds 



and it fa said that 'roses and many other beautiful 

 wild flowers abound, though even then the ground 

 is frozen nix inches below the surface. The ground 

 about Dawson fa low and flat and the drinking 

 to very bad, so that sickness and of 



r 



phoid fever is prevalent 

 son is rich with copper, silver, and coal, which an 



The region about Daw* 



neglected in the eagerness to get the 

 metal that hat been found here in greater* quanti- 

 ties than erer elsewhere. To get food over the pass 

 to Dawson costs on an average one dollar a pound. 

 kni; i \ ontinentaJ Asia, between 



Russia and ( hina ; area, 80,000 square miles. The 

 u.l,- it from Russia. The Tnmen 

 and Yalu rivers and the Long White mountains 

 separate it from Manchuria and China. 



.a ha* a rich fauna, including tigers and 

 leopards in great numbers, bears, antelopes, seven 

 species of ' 

 pigs, martens. 

 ornithology ' 



gea es, eas, acop, seve 



deer, foxes, beavers, otters, tiger rats, 



ns, sables, and striped squirrels, The 



y to varied, vast numbers of edihlt and 



in the annual migration or living and breeding in 



cities, along the coast, the treaty ports, ami the main 

 ded of timber and give an 

 of the country; but in the 



ndo the hills are 



northern and eastern provinces there are vast forests 

 >ded by the wood 



cutter* The 



l.ut -lightly 



oak. lime, a*h. birch, maple, inniper. mountain ash, 



naxel willow, hornbeam, plum, peach, and other 



The population to estimated by careful travelers 



.000.000 to 15.000.(* 

 laced upon the 



->7. which gives a population of less than 

 7.000.000, Socially the population to divided into 

 nobles, the you* ht (civil and military) das* who 

 |y no taxes or lolls and 



he; ami the people. Slavery still exists, but to poae- 

 mg away. 

 4ererameat-The ruling drnarfr was founded 



3& SucctesJOO to the throne to hereditary. 

 The edict of the sovereign most Hates law. In 



